Blogs from Pacific Grove, California, United States, North America

Geo: 36.6193, -121.919Got up and had the usual breakfast and broke camp and got things loaded up to head to Mendocino. We had talked to Jerry and Nadxli and they were going to meet us in Mendocino that evening.Before we broke camp we drove down to the Pacific Grove waterfront past Lovers Point around to where the wild waves were crashing. Pacific Grove borders Monterey and Carmel on the Monterey Peninsula, and the coastline is some of the most beautiful. We enjoyed the dramitic scenery from the car --it was all very windy and cool. We then drove through the historic downtown of Pacific Grove and though we longed to stop at The Red House for a meal we had to keep moving. Robert photographed the famous faierie statues in from of the Pacific Grove Post ... read more

An early farewell to LA with the expected traffic, but at least we were soon the freeway heading northbound. Trading the city mayhem for some wilderness calm....so we hoped! Our journey was expected to be long but event free. We followed Georgia's recommendation to drop in on a "Trader Joes" store to get some supplies for a camp BBQ, and what a gem of a store that is. Might be a chain, but it clearly has health food at it's heart, and the food was nicely laid out.....think of an up market and more stylish Waitrose versus the normal stores being more Netto/Lidl style! Another chain knocked off for lunch with a stop at an IHOP.....pretty tasty pancakes, even off they are mixed with combinations that make no normal sense ("Dad, why would you want eggs ... read more

Today while cleaning out a closet Ann ran across a framed T-shirt with a cat emblem. This emblem was none other than the Fat Cat T-shirt I had purchased in the late 1970’s from a Pacific Grove, CA restaurant. This piece of an old T-shirt reminded me of the following memory. A long time ago (late1970's) in the far-far-off land of Pacific Grove California, I was an undercover agent in charge of the Fort Ord, CA., Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) drug team. If you were young, crazy and had a lot of energy, you could be a drug agent in those days. In fact, if you are crazy and have a lot of energy you can be drug agent today. Of course, the catch is you have to be an Army CID agent. The recent ... read more

Finally we fly to California In reviewing our blog today Nov. 13, 2010 I have found several we started and abandoned. Here is one that I didn't delete. Not much but a reminder that we do visit family once in a while. We had planned on visiting Bill's sister and family in Pasadena for some time, but living, such as working as volunteers at the hospital several days each week just got in the way. Finally we said, enough is enough, we are going. March 20th was a beautiful day. "Good grief," Nancy said, "why didn't we go to California during the winter. It's nice here now." I guess it shows how smart we are. Our flight took us from Baltimore to Las Vegas and on to Pasadena. It was a most civilized flight as it ... read more